biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1892–1974)
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| biography:
| Psychiatrist, born in Romania. He studied in Vienna (1917 MD), and founded a theatre there in which would-be actors could improvize roles and dialogue. This evolved into the method of group psychotherapy he called ‘psychodrama’. After emigrating to the USA, he introduced the term ‘group therapy’ (1932) and established the Psychodramatic Institute in New York (1942). From 1947 he edited the journal Group Pyschotherapy (originally Sociatry). Psychodrama as a therapeutic technique never spread much beyond a few small centres. |
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